Safe & Well at Gaden

Hi everyone.
Just to let you know we have arrived safe and well at the Gaden Monastery.

All the monks are so happy to hear about everyone in Grass Valley.

Yesterday we visited the hospital they just built. It is an empty building at this point as there are no funds for equipment and staffing the hospital. This is a project that needs alot of attention.

We'll be going over to the nunnery at the end of this week. Almost half the monks and nuns are just now returning from HH teachings. I'll be posting my pictures to the blog as soon as I get time.

Today, now I am working in the monastery office fixing the desktop. Please forward this to anyone interested.

While the monastery is very beautiful, the settlement - or camp is just that - a Refugee camp. There are 8 camps in the settlement. It is very tragic what has happened to these Tibetans. All they really care about is our well being and understanding of non violence and compassion.

This is a dualistic reality. On one hand it is very beautiful -all the monks and the monastery which has been recreated from the dust and destruction of what they took out of Tibet. On the other hand they are really hanging on by a thread. Very threatened...